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If you've ever taken a ride on that health club staple, the stationary bike, chances are you took a book or magazine along with you to peruse while you worked up a sweat. It turns out students at Ward Elementary in Winston-Salem, North Carolina are doing the same. The school's pioneering Read and Ride program lets student get some exercise while they read.


School counselor Scott Ertl launched the innovative program back in 2009. The healthy-minded educator asked friends and community members to donate their exercise bikes to the project and the school received enough bikes to fill one whole classroom. Read more...


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